FREE GIFT GOD’S FREE GIFT FOR YOU! WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO BE BORN AGAIN? By Walter Andrewson bibleprophecyendtimes/ The Bible tells us in Genesis, in the beginning God created Heaven and earth, and on the sixth day God created man and called him Adam and placed him in the Garden of Eden. Adam needed a helpmate, so God created woman from the rib of man. God communicated with them in the garden. He told them they could eat from the fruits of the garden, but do not eat from the tree of good and evil or touch it lest you die. (God was indicating here that they would die a spiritual death for being disobedient because sin separates man from God because of the disobedience.) The serpent told Eve she would not surely die. Eve was deceived by the serpent thinking that she would not die physically and so she gave of the fruit to Adam and he sinned willfully by eating of the fruit which Eve placed before him. They felt guilty afterwards and hid from God. Because of the sin they were separated from God and since Adam, man has need to be redeemed to get back into fellowship with God. God created man with a body, soul and spirit. When Adam sinned he hid from God and was not able to communicate with God because sin separated him from God. (He died spiritually because of the sin.) The spirit part of man died and sin was passed to all men because of Adam’s sin, and God had to come up with a plan to renew the spirit in man. In the Old Testament man’s sin was covered by the sacrifice and shedding of the blood of animals. In the New Testament God provided His Son, Jesus Christ, born of a virgin, without sin, the perfect Lamb of God, to redeem man by the shedding of His blood on the cross. Since the time of Christ’s death, burial and resurrection, man can be redeemed to God by asking him to forgive our sins and by accepting Christ’s finished work of redemption upon the cross. We must also ask him to come into our hearts, thus renewing the Holy Spirit in man and being able to communicate with God through Christ’s provision. God gave man a free will. He can accept or reject His provision. What then does it mean to be born again? Christ describes it in John 3:3-8 where he says, “Except a man be born again he cannot see the Kingdom of God.” He continues on by saying, “Except a man be born of water and the spirit he cannot enter the Kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the spirit is spirit.” He indicates here that there is a natural birth and a spiritual birth. We are born into this world by a natural birth, but we cannot enter the Kingdom of God until we have a spiritual birth. It is God’s desire to have fellowship with man, but since the time of Adam, sin separates us from God. We gain access to Him through Christ. In John 14:6, Jesus said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life, no man cometh unto the Father but by me.” He is our advocate with the Father. Jesus is now sitting at the right hand of God making intercession for us. Since God is a spirit, our spirit is renewed through spiritual birth and we can have a direct relationship through Christ and the Holy Spirit which abides in us. When we accept Christ the Holy Spirit comes to dwell in us and we now have a personal relationship with Christ through the indwelling Holy Spirit and our name is written down in The Lamb’s Book of Life. It is then that we enter into God’s Kingdom. Christ promises to return and take us to the Father’s house in John 14:3, to dwell with Him for Eternity. JESUS DIED FOR YOU! John 3:16, For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. TO RECEIVE YOUR FREE GIFT FOR ETERNITY PRAY THIS PRAYER AND MEAN IT IN YOUR HEART. YOU WILL BE SAVED AND KNOW YOU HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. “God in Heaven, I know I am a sinner. I need your help. I believe in my heart that Jesus Christ is Your Son, that he died upon the cross for my sins, and that God raised him from the dead. Jesus, right now I open my heart and invite You to come in. Make yourself real to me. Take control of my life. Keep me from evil and make me the person You want me to be. Be my Lord and Savior.” WELCOME INTO THE KINGDOM OF GOD CONTINUE TO VERIFIY WHAT YOU HAVE JUST DONE NO CONDEMNATION IN CHRIST John 3:17-19 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.18“He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. A NEW CREATION IN CHRIST 1 Cor. 5:17 If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. TELL OTHERS YOU BELIEVE Rom. 10:9-10 If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. ASSURANCE OF ETERNAL LIFE 1 John 5:11-13 And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.13I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. TO GROW IN YOUR NEW FAITH 1. Read God’s Word daily. 2. Start by reading the Gospel of John and then read the rest of the New Testament. The Holy Spirit will make it come alive for you. 3. Pray and take time to praise him. Talk to God just as you would any other person. 4. Seek fellowship with other born again believers. 5. Find a good Church that teaches and preaches God’s Word and attend regularly.
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